Northland Regional Council
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Northland Regional Council is one of Northland's primary environmental guardians and aims to protect Northland's land, water, coast and air while still allowing for sustainable development. We are also responsible for promoting the region's economic, social and cultural wellbeing.
WHANGAREI — Whangarei's CityLink public bus service is to drop a number of seldom-used trips – mainly in the early morning and evening - as part of a number of changes to be introduced from March.
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NORTHLAND — A ‘fantastic’ decision to base three international teams in Northland during the Rugby World Cup is poised to deliver a multimillion dollar economic windfall, the group charged with co-ordinating Cup planning in Northland says.
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WHANGAREI — Forty-nine students from 23 Northland schools will gather for a special Youth Summit at Whangarei’s Onerahi foreshore this month (subs: Wednesday 28 October) to discuss coastal environmental issues – and what they can do to make a difference.
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NORTHLAND — Calls by locals for more time to have a say on a draft local authority mooring management plan for Mangawhai Harbour has seen a deadline for public comment extended by more than a month to December.
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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional Council says today’s recommendation KiwiRail be allowed to formally designate the Marsden Pt rail link route is a significant milestone in a project poised to deliver significant, long-lasting economic benefits to the entire region.
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NORTHLAND — A panel of Independent Commissioners is recommending national rail operator KiwiRail be allowed to formally designate the corridor of land it would use for a proposed multimillion dollar rail link from Oakleigh to Marsden Pt.
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NORTHLAND — Local authority proposals to change ski lane and swimming areas at two popular beaches in the Far North’s Doubtless Bay have been modified after public consultation.
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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are being asked for their views on a new Proposed Marine Pest Management Strategy designed to address the impacts of established nasties like sea squirt and potential threats from species like the Pacific sea star starfish.
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NORTHLAND — A barely detectable tsunami wave has been recorded in Northland after todays large earthquake off Samoa but appears to have had little or no local impact.
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NORTHLAND — Northlanders in low-lying east coast areas are being warned to adopt a precautionary approach and stay off beaches as a tsunami with a possible estimated height of up to one metre reportedly heads towards New Zealand.
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NORTHLAND — Northlanders in low-lying east coast areas are being warned to adopt a precautionary approach and stay off beaches as a tsunami of as-yet unknown height reportedly heads towards New Zealand.
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WHANGAREI — A United States-based expert has identified a mystery plant growing in forest near Whangarei as a passion flower native to Costa Rica and Panama.
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NORTHLAND — A 17-year-old Kerikeri High School student’s study on the biological control of gorse has earned him this year’s Northland Regional Council ‘Excellence Award’ at the Top Energy Far North Science and Technology Fair.
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NORTHLAND — Majority shareholder the Northland Regional Council wants to see a more professionally focussed Northland Port Corporation board – and fewer local government faces at the board table.
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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are to be granted access to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of aerial photography and other local authority geographic information system (GIS) data.
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AUCKLAND — Initial investigations show a Government proposal that would expand the Northland region’s boundary as far south as Waiwera is workable from the Northland Regional Council’s perspective, its Chairman says.
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WHANGAREI — Local authority biosecurity staff are hoping an overseas expert will be able to shed some light on the identity of a mysterious plant discovered growing wild in publically-owned forest in Whangarei.
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WHANGAREI — The first stage of the $16 million Northland Events Centre project is now effectively complete with the second, final stage of the ratepayer-funded development expected to be finished - on time and budget – by May next year.
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NORTHLAND — Development on floodplains – particularly housing – has emerged as one of several key public concerns expressed during a recent round of meetings in flood-prone Northland communities.
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NORTHLAND — Northland Regional Council Chairman Mark Farnsworth has been appointed to a new seven-member Government Aquaculture Technical Advisory Group (TAG).
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NORTHLAND — Dozens of teachers and students will take to the road shortly for a first-hand look at their peers’ environmental education initiatives in the region’s inaugural Enviroschools bus tours.
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WHANGAREI — Computer Access New Zealand (CANZ) has announced another eDay (free computer recycling day), for 12 September 2009, with the aim of diverting over 1,000 tonnes of electronic waste (e-waste) from landfills in up to 40 regions - including Whangarei - an increase from the 31 regions that participated in 2008.
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NORTHLAND — Parts of Northland have been lashed by almost a month’s rain in just 36 hours, but forecasters say the worst of it - and the gale force winds affecting the region - appear to have passed.
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NORTHLAND — Northlanders – especially those north of Whangarei – are being warned to keep a wary eye on river and stream levels with up to 150mm of rain, flooding and strong potentially damaging winds forecast for the weekend.
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NORTHLAND — A series of meetings with residents of some of Northland’s most flood-prone communities has begun and is already paying dividends according to local authority river management staff.
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NORTHLAND — A large landslip has reduced SH 11 at Lemons Hill Pahia side down to one lane.
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NORTHLAND — Initial attempts to restore a beneficial undersea grass in Whangarei Harbour are being hailed a success by increasingly optimistic researchers.
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NORTHLAND — New rates to fund the region’s rescue helicopter service and Whangarei’s public bus service are two of the key decisions confirmed today (subs: Weds 24 June) after recent public input on the Northland Regional Council’s draft 10-year Community Plan.
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NORTHLAND — Northland’s farmers are being urged to do their bit to recycle more of the estimated 400-plus tonnes of non-biodegradable silage wrap used in the region annually.
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NORTHLAND — Residents of some of Northlands most flood-prone communities are being invited to meet with local authorities to update existing knowledge about - and help find possible solutions to flooding issues.
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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional Council’s award-winning website has scooped two new accolades – one national, the other global – in a fortnight.
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NORTHLAND — Northland Regional Council Chairman Mark Farnsworth and Whangarei Mayor Stan Semenoff have expressed deep gratitude at the announcement today (subs: Tues 12 May) of $2.5 million in Government funding for Whangarei’s regional multi-events centre.
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NORTHLAND — Applications are now open for a $500,000 Northland Regional Council fund designed to help people protect and enhance the region’s precious natural environment.
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KAITAIA — More than 20,000 litres of water has been drained from a large, unstable hill posing a potential threat to Kaitaia township.
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Northland farmers have just two months left to meet a July deadline to keep stock out of the region’s tidal areas.
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A new fee and increases in existing resource consent charges are proposed as the Northland Regional Council moves to both learn more about the region’s freshwater resources and ensure there is enough to go around in future.
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NORTHLAND — The public has one month from today to comment on the direction the Northland Regional Council intends to take over the next decade.
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The local authority leaders of Auckland’s neighbours have met to work through some of the initial implications of plans to super size the city.
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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are being urged to comment on a new draft local authority transport programme that could ultimately see more than a billion dollars spent on the region’s transport needs over the next decade.
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Independent Commissioners have granted the Northland Regional Council resource consents to dredge 22 coastal stream mouths to ensure water can flow freely from them to the sea.
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NORTHLAND — Government plans to investigate finfish and oyster farming opportunities in Northland in a bid to grow New Zealand's aquaculture industry have been welcomed by the Northland Regional Council.
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NORTHLAND — A joint local authority hearings committee is recommending the Minister of Conservation grant a number of coastal permits for a multimillion dollar redevelopment of the Paihia waterfront.
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NORTHLAND — At 8.30pm this Saturday (28 March 2009), Northland will be part of something huge, and the Northland Regional Council is opening its doors to tell you about it.
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NORTHLAND — Northland Regional Council ratepayers are being asked whether they’re prepared to help fund the region’s rescue helicopter service and Whangarei’s public bus service.
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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional Council has today outlined serious concerns over elements of a Northland Port Corporation share buy back deal the Council claims could have cost the regions ratepayers millions of dollars.
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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are being urged to keep a close eye on the weather today with forecasters predicting severe gale force winds and heavy rain.
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NORTHLAND — Resource consents have been granted for a proposed community wastewater scheme in the Waitangi Forest which could eventually treat waste from up to 50,000 Bay of Islands people.
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NORTHLAND — Anyone noticing a bright red colour in the sea around Opua later this month will have nothing to worry about – it’s a harmless research project.
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NORTHLAND — Existing trustee Andrew Britton, a Whangarei accountant, has been reappointed for a new three-year term and formally confirmed as the trust’s new Chairman.
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NORTHLAND — World champion dinghy sailor – and Far North teenager - Ben Lutze has been named Northland Sailor of the Year for 2008.
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NORTHLAND — The new Government’s long-awaited revamp of the Resource Management Act has been welcomed by Northland Regional Council Chairman Mark Farnsworth.
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WHANGAREI — Staged development of a proposed $16 million multi-events centre at Whangarei’s Okara Park will begin within days – with a new pitch, refurbished north stand and embankments expected to be ready by mid-August.
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NORTHLAND — Unimpressed officials have served an overseas boatie with a $750 infringement notice after an angry local photographed him emptying human waste into the Opua Basin from his yacht.
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NORTHLAND — Inexperienced and overconfident boaties are risking their lives launching and retrieving their vessels on Kaipara’s treacherous West Coast beaches, worried officials say.
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WHANGAREI — New air quality rules mean burning backyard waste will be effectively banned in urban Whangarei from Monday (subs: Monday 01 December).
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CanTeen's Annual Bandanna Challenge was a huge success this year and now its wrapped Canteen have found themselves with some very generous commodities donated from far and wide!
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NORTHLAND — Spills of animal waste which badly polluted an Aranga stream have collectively cost the owners of a Kaipara dairy farm – and a contractor who worked with them - more than $67,000 in fines and court costs.
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NORTHLAND — More than 40 applicants are seeking Northland Regional Council Recreation Fund backing for wide range of projects from martial arts mats to a new gymnasium.
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NORTHLAND — Dredging to remove thousands of tonnes of built-up silt from about 4.5 kilometres of Whangarei’s Hatea River channel - including part of the Town Basin marina channel - is due to begin within days (subs: Monday Oct 13).
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NORTHLAND — A $1 million-plus concerted campaign designed to halt the spread of invasive Manchurian wild rice - and then steadily reduce its impact in Northland gets under way in earnest this month.
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NORTHLAND — Northland’s 30-plus Enviroschools are being urged to get their applications in this month for the 2008 Enviroschools Awards.
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NORTHLAND — A range of rainfall and river data – including flood warning levels - is now available on the Northland Regional Council’s website.
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NORTHLAND — Northland Regional Council (NRC) maritime staff have begun removing illegal moorings as part of an ongoing programme to update mooring identity tags.
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NORTHLAND — Thirty-nine students from 20 Northland schools will gather for a special Youth Summit at Whangarei’s Onerahi foreshore this month (subs: Thursday 23 October) to discuss coastal environmental issues – and what they can do to make a difference.
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WHANGAREI — Two firms are to compete for the right to design and build a proposed $16 million multi-purpose regional events centre at Whangareis Okara Park.
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NORTHLAND — Applications for resource consents will continue to be processed by the Northland Regional Council in Northland – not Hamilton.
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NORTHLAND — A range of changes to the way the Northland Regional Council Community Trust (NRCCT) is run will include a broader focus designed to strategically grow Northland’s economy.
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NORTHLAND — The summer boating season is fast approaching and the Northland Regional Council is keen to talk to boaties about some important issues involving the management of Northlands coastal waters.
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NORTHLAND — More than 10,000 sea squirts have been removed from a Bream Bay marina in a groundbreaking pest control partnership between local authority staff, the marina operator and student volunteers.
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NORTHLAND — More than 150 projects ranging from protecting sand dunes to pest control have been awarded a share of this year’s $500,000-plus Northland Regional Council Environment Award.
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NORTHLAND — Northlanders keen to dispose of their obsolete computer equipment or unwanted mobile phones safely are being urged to take advantage of an upcoming national recycling day.
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NORTHLAND — Rat poison can be dropped from the air next year to kill rodents on offshore islands in the eastern Bay of Islands (Ipipiri), a Northland Regional Council Hearings Committee has decided.
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NORTHLAND — Officials have recovered an estimated 3150 litres of diesel, lubricants and other oils from a wooden-hulled fishing boat which ran aground in the surf at Waipapakauri, on Ninety Mile Beach this week.
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NORTHLAND — Officials are facing an extremely difficult task trying to recover thousands of litres of diesel on board a wooden-hulled fishing boat aground in the surf at Waipapakauri, on Ninety Mile Beach.
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NORTHLAND — Northland appears to have had a lucky escape as heavy rain - and resulting flooding failed to materialise as predicted overnight.
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NORTHLAND — Widespread flooding looks almost certain in Northland overnight with latest forecasts confirming 80-100mm of heavy rain is due to start falling on the sodden region from about 3pm today (subs: Tuesday 29 July).
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NORTHLAND — A new storm expected to hit Northland tomorrow (subs: Tues 29 July) is poised to deliver worse flooding than that experienced at the weekend, experts are warning.
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NORTHLAND — Torrential rain has now eased in Northland but officials are warning people to keep a wary eye on the region’s rivers, many of which are expected to continue to rise over the next 24 hours.
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NORTHLAND — The rain and winds lashing Northland are making their presence felt with surface flooding and power cuts in parts of the region and rain-swollen rivers tipped to top their banks this afternoon.
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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are in for a wet, windy and wild weekend with forecasters predicting heavy downpours, severe gales and big seas.
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WHANGAREI — Five firms – including Northland’s Kerr Construction – have been shortlisted to put their design-build ideas forward for a proposed $16 million multi-purpose regional events centre at Whangarei’s Okara Park.
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NORTHLAND — Time is running out for applications for a $500,000 Northland Regional Council fund designed to help people protect and enhance the region’s precious natural environment.
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NORTHLAND — Extra spending to reduce the risks from 23 flood-prone rivers and to better manage regional development are among new initiatives in the Northland Regional Council’s freshly-adopted Annual Plan.
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NORTHLAND — Community vegetable gardens, propagating areas, native worm breeding and recycling systems are among 15 school projects that will receive $15,000 funding from this year’s Northland Regional Council Environmental Curriculum Awards.
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NORTHLAND — Improvements to forestry access roads have received a boost with the Northland Regional Council and the New Zealand Forestry Owners Association managing to secure another three years of funding for the work.
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NORTHLAND — A change in Deputy Chaiman and reassignment of Committee membership are two of the main changes to its governance structure announced by the Northland Regional Council today.
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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional and Whangarei District Councils are calling for expressions of interest for a $16 million multi-purpose events centre at Okara Park.
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NORTHLAND — Anyone wanting to stay overnight on a boat may have to make sure it’s fitted with a portable toilet, holding tanks or a sewage treatment system under possible changes designed to better protect Northland’s marine environment.
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NORTHLAND — The cost of travelling on Whangareis public bus service will rise from July 1 with skyrocketing fuel costs linked to the first increase in ticket prices in six years.
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NORTHLAND — An independent consultants’ report has identified a $16.53 million events centre option as closely matching both Northland Regional Council funding conditions and the amount of money actually available for the project.
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NORTHLAND — A ‘relatively abundant’ infestation of the unwanted marine sea squirt ‘Styela clava’ has been discovered during a routine sweep of the new Marsden Cove Marina by a dive team contracted to Biosecurity New Zealand.
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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional Councils website www.nrc.govt.nz has beaten more than 80 other local authority websites to be judged the best of its kind in New Zealand.
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NORTHLAND — The first steps have been taken towards possible development of a multimillion dollar publicly-owned broadband network tailor-made for the Northland region.
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NORTHLAND — Northlanders have a week left to have their say on a variety of Northland Regional Council projects proposed for the next year - including $900,000 of new spending designed to reduce flood risks.
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NORTHLAND — Applications open soon for a $500,000 Northland Regional Council fund designed to help people protect and enhance the regions precious natural environment.Â
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NORTHLAND — Northland schools are being urged act quickly to try to secure part of a $15,000 special Northland Regional Council award which aims to boost environmental education.
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NORTHLAND — An independent review has recommended significant changes to the way the $12 million Northland Regional Council Community Trust (NRCCT) is run.
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NORTHLAND — Parts of Northland – including Whangarei Harbour and the eastern Bay of Islands - will effectively be off-limits to marine farming in line with the community’s wishes, the Northland Regional Council confirmed today (subs: Weds 16 April).
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NORTHLAND — Far North Holdings has been granted resource consent to deposit up to 45,000 cubic metres of marine dredgings and clean fill on to a several-hectare Opua site over the next decade.
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WHANGAREI — Passenger transport company NZ Bus has been awarded a $7.5 million local authority contract to run Whangarei’s public bus service for the next five years.
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